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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"></P><P>ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC - LIVE<BR>
Jan & Dean
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I know, Chuck Berry wrote it, the Beach Boys ultimately did a more famous cover, but the rendition I always think of is from Jan & Dean's 1965 live album, "Command Performance," from back before "Sgt. Pepper" made albums a statement and I purchased long players primarily for the value proposition. "Command Performance" had "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena" and "Theme From The T.A.M.I. Show," at which they were the hosts, as well as "Surf City," "Sidewalk Surfin'," "Dead Man's Curve" and this.
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ROCK 'N' ROLL-live<BR>
Lou Reed
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DOCTOR MY EYES
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The first time you probably heard him.
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But I discovered him at the Fillmore East, opening for Laura Nyro in December 1970, during her annual Christmas spectacular, they were both managed by David Geffen, ergo Jackson's appearance. Very few people impress you the first time out, especially if you're completely unfamiliar with their material, but I was enraptured by Jackson and waited with bated breath for his debut LP, which didn't come out until early '72.
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NATHAN LA FRANEER
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If you bought "Joni Mitchell," aka "Song To A Seagull," when it came out, you're a member of a very exclusive club or you're lying. There were no famous covers, no big media campaign, the record barely made a noise. Yet, when you discovered it sometime thereafter, which you did if you were a big Joni Mitchell fan, you became enraptured, because of the sound. This is my favorite cut on the LP, the story of a ride to the airport. Exquisitely recorded by Art Cryst and produced by David Crosby this is the sound of enough money to get it right, it's evidence of a lost art. Hearing the album is akin to viewing ancient relics of the Mayans and the Greeks.
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>SOMEONE TO LAY DOWN BESIDE ME</p>
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Linda Ronstadt was America's sweetheart, the coolest rock chick who owned the airwaves, she released her third smash in a row, "Hasten Down The Wind" and the killer track, which finished the LP, was "Someone To Lay Down Beside Me." The instrumentation was perfect, haunting, the sheen shone, and then we experienced the exquisite voice we all knew and loved.</p>
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Singing a song by someone we were completely unfamiliar with, one Karla Bonoff.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/bob-lefsetz" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Bob Lefsetz</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/welcome-to-my-world" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Welcome To My World</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/playlists" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Playlists</a></div></div></div>Fri, 09 Oct 2015 18:13:52 +0000rhino14256 at http://www.rhino.comBob Lefsetz: Welcome To My World - "Sittin' In"http://www.rhino.com/article/bob-lefsetz-welcome-to-my-world-sittin-in
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Jim Messina was a secondary character in a troubled band and then a majordomo in an also-ran band and Kenny Loggins was a complete unknown but when they were put together, it was magic.
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Yes, Messina was in Buffalo Springfield. A classic band whose frontmen, Stephen Stills, Neil Young and Richie Furay, got all the attention.
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This song has been going through my head ever since I heard Gary Richrath died.
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R.E.O. Speedwagon was just another faceless Midwestern band slogging it out on the road until "Roll With The Changes" emerged on the airwaves in '78 and convinced me the band was not only a comer, it had arrived.
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded">I LOVE this album, it's a complete return to form after too many mellow offerings, it's got everything I always loved about Kenny and MORE!<br><br>
That's right, he was country's biggest star, the entertainer of the year, and then...he was eclipsed by Taylor Swift and Luke Bryan and it looked like he was in the rearview mirror, despite a few hits, and then he dropped THIS!
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded">What can I tell you, I didn't start buying every Kinks album until their hits were done. I owned the "Greatest Hits," but with limited cash it wasn't until I was a senior in high school that I purchased "Arthur," I loved hearing "Victoria."</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/bob-lefsetz" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Bob Lefsetz</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/welcome-to-my-world" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Welcome To My World</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/playlists" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Playlists</a></div></div></div>Fri, 04 Sep 2015 18:08:36 +0000rhino13751 at http://www.rhino.comBob Lefsetz: Welcome To My World - "Hitch A Ride"http://www.rhino.com/article/bob-lefsetz-welcome-to-my-world-hitch-a-ride
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded">Talk about forgotten men. Brad Delp offs himself and years later he's just a footnote in the history of rock and roll, his crime being a member of the most successful new band of 1976/7, which burst on the scene with an album so perfect, so pristine, so hook-laden, that the cognoscenti could only lambaste it.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/bob-lefsetz" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Bob Lefsetz</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/welcome-to-my-world" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Welcome To My World</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/playlists" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Playlists</a></div></div></div>Fri, 28 Aug 2015 19:23:21 +0000rhino13626 at http://www.rhino.comBob Lefsetz: Welcome To My World - "Blue Bandana"http://www.rhino.com/article/bob-lefsetz-welcome-to-my-world-blue-bandana
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I'm a sucker for an acoustic guitar.
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That's right, in this electronic world of 0's and 1's, something natural, something evidencing humanity, grabs me and has me paying attention.
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At least once a week, I cruise the Country playlists on Spotify. And it's astounding how much of it's formulaic, me-too crap. All about beer and trucks and... When I hear something different and it rings my bell, I don't push the button to fast-forward, I listen.
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They say we should listen to "24 Frames," but if you do so you'll get an appreciation of Jason Isbell equivalent to the one of Ryan Adams if you listen to "New York, New York."
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That's right, they were both in bands that didn't work out for them and went solo and suddenly got acclaim, Ryan Adams on an indie label with "Heartbreaker," with its masterpiece "My Winding Wheel." But if you listen to "Gold," the follow-up, you'll discover "New York, New York" was one of the weakest songs on the LP. an album-opening ditty made to appeal to the casual listener, and neither Adams nor Isbell is for those driving by, they're for the cognoscenti, the diehard fan. But labels are flummoxed and they point to the catchy tune when anyone who believes knows that the track on "Gold" is the slow burner "Nobody Girl," and the track on Jason Isbell's "Something More Than Free" is "Speed Trap Town," a song that no one writes about that stopped me in my tracks when I was listening to it way past midnight in the Santa Monica Mountains.
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>AIN'T TOO PROUD TO BEG</p>
<p>This was during the denouement, when the Rolling Stones were the World's Greatest Rock And Roll Band, but their recorded efforts were spotty, their rep was based on their live show, and the hits of yore. I'll posit that "It's Only Rock 'n Roll" is better than its predecessor, "Goats Head Soup," but at this late date you only need to hear "Time Waits For No One," with Mick Taylor's exquisite guitar work and this, a cover of the Norman Whitfield/Eddie Holland song made famous by the Temptations.</p>
<p>"I know you wanna leave me<br>
I refuse to let you go"</p>
<p>It's the guitar and the piano accents that push this over the top. It comes on like a freight train and settles right into the groove, I won't say it tops the Temptations' take but it's just not a raw copy, it stands on its own, the Stones' version has its own magic.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/bob-lefsetz" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Bob Lefsetz</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/welcome-to-my-world" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Welcome To My World</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/playlists" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Playlists</a></div></div></div>Fri, 07 Aug 2015 18:41:45 +0000rhino13316 at http://www.rhino.comBob Lefsetz: Welcome To My World - "Summer Rain"http://www.rhino.com/article/bob-lefsetz-welcome-to-my-world-summer-rain
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"All summer long, we spent dancin' in the sand<BR>
And the jukebox kept on playin'<BR>
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"</p>
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That's your image of SoCal, I know. Beach bunnies and surfboards. Endless summer sunsets.
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But the truth is that's not the way it's been this summer.
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded">The first album, not their whole oeuvre, because nothing thereafter was quite as good, and every Deadhead owned the initial LP. Jerry Garcia played with them, live and on record. He was into pedal steel. But the truth is the John "Marmaduke" Dawson-led New Riders opened the Dead gigs forty five years ago and it was like they were part of the same group, you expected to see them, and when they put out their first album you bought it. And it wasn't as good as "Workingman's Dead" and "American Beauty," but it was accessible and the more you played it the more you came to like it.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/bob-lefsetz" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Bob Lefsetz</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/welcome-to-my-world" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Welcome To My World</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/playlists" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Playlists</a></div></div></div>Fri, 24 Jul 2015 19:05:50 +0000rhino13066 at http://www.rhino.comBob Lefsetz: Welcome To My World - "Laura Nyro Primer"http://www.rhino.com/article/bob-lefsetz-welcome-to-my-world-laura-nyro-primer
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WEDDING BELL BLUES
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A hit for the 5th Dimension, I always preferred Laura's take.
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It's the simple piano intro, which draws you in, you know you're gonna hear a story. Great music swings, there's something more than the notes. "Wedding Bell Blues" is a performance, something that picks you up and carries you away. You get the message without even comprehending the lyrics.
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